Before the time of Sony and Microsoft… Before the time where a blue bird was still a jay and not a social network… Well, all before that existed the ages of arcade gaming, an era of rusty coin and sweaty joysticks. But all of those marks of glorious times have slowly faded into the new millennium… Or have they?
That does look cool, doesn’t it?
A year ago, The Internet Archive decided to upload a list of games from the 70’s and 80’s era, all supported thanks to emulators simulating the consoles needed to run those antics games.
One year later, the website is going for it again by uploading what appears to be a little over 900 titles originally published on arcade between the 70’s and 90’s. And again, no need to break your wallets because all the work (or play) will go through free emulators of the ancestral machines, bringing once again those almost forgotten titles back to life.
This project is called The Internet Arcade and you can follow this link to let yourself go to the disco frenzy. Just click on the games you like and follow the emulator link, its easy and will bring back their youth to the most venerable of us.
Furthermore, we can agree we all like gaming. And I am all for a project like this. But what made me the most excited is the little historic that come with each game, sending tales from the past back to us, the descendant of the first era of players. Ah… It was a heroic time…
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